330 xxxvi. 29; cp. xxv. 9 f. 331 xxxvi. 19, 24. 332 Such is the force of the Hebrew idiom in the last clause of xxxvi. 16; for the different attitude of the princes in 608 see pp. 170 ff. 333 The Hebrew text is accurately rendered by our English Versions; the following are the principal points on which the Greek differs from it: Verse 1, both Greek and Latin lack _that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon_; in verse 2 Greek lacks _Jeremiah the prophet_ and _all_, and in verse 3 _the word of the Lord hath come to me_ and _but ye have not hearkened_. In verse 6 for _I will do you no hurt_ Greek reads _to your hurt_. Again, Greek lacks in 7 _saith the Lord_, in 8 _of Hosts_, in 9 _saith the Lord and to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon My servant_, and for _all the families_ it reads _a family_; and in 11 lacks _this, a desolation, these_ and _the king of Babylon_, substituting for the last two _shall serve among the nations_. 334 E.g. the preposition _to_ before _Nebuchadrezzar_ in verse 9 which does not construe. 335 xxv. 1-14 has been denied to Jeremiah by Schwally (“Z.A.T.W.,” viii. 177 ff.) and Duhm, but their arguments are answered by Giesebrecht and Cornill _in loco_; see, too, Gillies, 195-8, 202, and Skinner, 240 f. 336 See Davidson in Hastings’ “D.B.,” ii. 574, Driver and Gillies _in loco_. 337 See above, p. 14. 338 E.g. cp. 26 with 9 and both with i. 15. 339 As Duhm asserts; see above, pp. 79 ff. 340 The above paragraph on xxv. 15-38 is based on Giesebrecht’s careful analysis of the passage. 341 xxxvi. 5, 19, 26. 342 Worn next the skin; not _girdle_ which came over the other garments. See “Enc. Bibl.,” article “Girdle.” 343 So virtually Cornill, who, indifferent as to whether the story is one of fact or of imagination, emphasises the choice of the Euphrates as its essential point, compares ii. 18, _to drink of the waters of the River_, and dates the story in the earliest years of Jeremiah’s ministry. On the other hand Erbt, who also reads _Euphrates_, interprets the story as one of actual journeys thither by Jeremiah. 344 I visited it in 1901 and 1904, a most surprising oasis! 345 Pĕrath or Parah = Farah was first suggested by Ewald (“Prophets of the O. T.,” Eng. trans, iii. 152), quoting Schick (“Ausland,” 1867, 572-4), by Birch (“P.E.F.Q.,” 1880, 235), and by Marti (“Z.D.P.V.,” 1880, 11), and has been accepted by many—Cheyne, Ball, McFadyen, Peake, etc. 346 See above, p. 55. 347 In the valley of Hinnom, where were potteries and above them a city-gate _Harsith_ = (probably) _Potsherds_; in the upper valley broken pottery is still crushed for cement; lower down traces of ancient potteries appear, and there is the traditional site of the Potter’s Field, Matt. xxvii. 7.